Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Drunk Archaeology

Welcome to the Drunk Archaeology tumblr for the DA podcast which will premier late in July 2014. Modeled loosely after the wildly popular Drunk History series, Drunk Archaeology
will initially be an audio-only podcast featuring archaeologists doing
what they do best: drinking and then talking shop. Each week will
feature either a one-on-one interview with a drunk archaeologist, or a
panel of drunk archaeologists tackling questions about archaeology,
cultural heritage, higher education, and theory, not to mention various
retellings of ancient tales and a sharing of secrets divulged only by
the drunk.

Andrew Reinhard, punk archaeologist without borders, archaeological
publisher, and archaeological gamer, will host the podcast each week.
Episodes will feature in-depth, drunken discussion, a drunk lightning
round of questions, drunk archaeology sing-a-longs, drunk
name-that-archaeologist contests, and much, much more. Podcasts will be
hosted on Soundcloud and linked to the tumblr and to Twitter. Ultimately there will be YouTube videos, as well as a free podcast channel via iTunes.If you would like to be on a Drunk Archaeology panel, or want to be
interviewed by Andrew on a variety of archaeological topics, or if you
have topics or questions that you’d love to have drunk archaeologists
answer, send an email to drunkarchaeology@gmail.com. Archaeology-inspired cocktail recipes are also welcome.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.